Ghost of a Podcast: Astrology & Advice with Jessica Lanyadoo
589: Horoscope - Chiron and Neptune
21 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Laniato. I'm an astrologer, psychic medium, and animal communicator. And I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no bullshit mystical advice for living your very best life. Welcome back to Ghost of a Podcast. This week, we're going to be looking at the astrology of December 21st through the 27th.
And as we do, we are also looking at the last full week of 2025, which is bananas. We are looking at the astrology of a time where a lot of people are off of work or with their family of origin or feeling a sense of pressure to be connected to other people, whether or not you actually are connected to other people in ways that feel nurturing and supportive and fun and all the things.
So there's a lot to consider within this week's astrology. There's just a quick note that I want to make before I dive into this week's horoscope, which is not only can you join me over on Patreon if you want to dive into mentorship with me or get loads of extras, content that is supportive and educational.
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Okay, now we're going to dive into this astrology, but I want to kind of give you an overview for just a minute because so much of what this week's astrology is going to do is test your boundaries.
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Chapter 2: What is the main theme of this week's astrology?
And it's like, again, right on time because it's holiday season and that means a lot of social pressure. And for a lot of people, it means hanging out with family of origin, which can be pretty activating. So something that I kind of like want to put in your head, an idea to just keep on coming back to is how do you remain true to yourself in situations and in circumstances that are activating?
Like when your instincts or your internal narration is not super reliable. And that happens to all of us, right? There are situations where we get activated and so we have an old story that we fall back on.
Or when you're around family of origin or sometimes friends that you've had a really long time or a partner that you've been with for a really long time, we fall back on expectation, probability, and habit. within family of origin, it's called a family trance pattern, right?
This way of engaging with people that you've known for a really long time that is not really authentic to who you are now or who you hope to be, but it's some sort of twisted, messy embodiment of who you once were or projections levied upon you. And if we're being honest, you aren't just like the victim of this. You participate in it, right? Like we do this to other people.
Chapter 3: How do holiday pressures affect our personal boundaries?
People do it to us. Being a human is messy. Being in relationships is messy. The astrology of this week really gives you the opportunity to bring mindfulness to this. however it shows up in your life.
Notice when you're activated, when you're scared, when other people's expectations and projections kind of start to become something you over-identify with or conversely, you get super defensive around. and just take a beat, notice it and remember who you are. This is really important.
I know it sounds so simple and a lot of times people will think to themselves, well, if it's simple, it's not that deep. But if you can remember who you are and stay connected to that,
honor what your truth is, what is healthy and in alignment for you to engage with and where your boundaries lie, then not only are you going to feel more at peace with what happens, even if it doesn't go great, like dynamically with other people, but also by being true to yourself and showing up real and whole or as whole as you can, you start to create room for other people to do the same.
And that can be transformative. Sometimes nothing much changes when you change. And other times when you show up different, you allow space energetically for other people to do the same. And then sometimes in an instant and other times slowly over time, what happens is that your relationships evolve.
and they become a more modern and present articulation of who you are and how you want to be with the people that you're connected to. So with that little foreshadowing, let's dive in to this week's forecast. The first exact transits are on Sunday, the 21st of December. And at 7.03 a.m. Pacific time, the sun moves into Capricorn. This is known as the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
And the solstice is really important for a lot of people spiritually. On the solstice, when the sun enters into zero degrees of Capricorn, it's like the sun stands still, right? It's been getting darker and darker and darker up until this day. And now it starts to get a little bit lighter after the 21st of December, slowly, slowly.
And there's something really important about this moment when the sun stands still, when we experience darkness. And so many of us have such a negative association with the psychological experience, the emotional experience of darkness. But the truth is we are energetic beings and your ability to embrace all of your parts is the assignment. We're not just supposed to be love and light.
That's unrealistic. nature and in its reflection astrology is a really useful articulation of how there is a time for all things. And there is a time for staying present with the darkness, for being interested in it, for investing in it, for letting it change you.
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Chapter 4: Why is self-awareness important during activating transits?
And it is really just like, it can be really confusing and it can have you feeling all kinds of ways and it can have other people, people feeling all kinds of ways so that they act weird with you. And you're like, why are you being defensive? And it's probably because they're fixated on some weird fucking thing.
So again, hold space for, you don't know what's happening in the universe that is that other person. And also you get to have clear boundaries that are yours to protect, yours to identify, yours to maintain. A big part of this is not believing that your story that you're telling yourself about what other people are thinking or feeling is fact. It's not. It's projection. It's assessment.
Maybe you're an amazing psychic. You still can't fucking know. You still can't know. What you want to hold space for is what you don't know. And when we hold space for what we don't know, there's something implied there, which is then you are making choices around how to hold it. If you're making negative assumptions, those are assumptions. you could just as easily make a positive assumption.
I mean, we can't all easily make positive assumptions. I am a Capricorn. I get that. But understanding that this is at least theoretically true can be really valuable for navigating through paranoia and projection, both of which are very possible under the influence of this transit. This transit is challenging.
It can create really uncomfortable dynamics with other people or make you fixated on comparison and again, projection. And so kindness, kindness, kindness. And also boundaries, boundaries, boundaries. That's the assignment under the Venus square to Neptune. That brings us to the last exact transit of this week. On Saturday, December 27th, Mercury will form an exact trine to Chiron.
This transit is happening with Mercury at 22 degrees of Sagittarius and 37 minutes trine to Chiron at the same degrees of Aries. It's exact at 415 PM Pacific time. This transit is really lovely and it's a great asset in the context of the other transits we're going through, especially.
This is a transit that empowers you to keep an open mind, to be willing and able to confront things that might be a little activating, might be a little confronting, but to do so with kind of like a thirst for the truth and not a truth that you can beat yourself or others up with, but just the truth, just held in a neutral way.
This transit is really good for keeping an open mind, having conversations that are kind of tough to have, but having them with an expansive and curious mindset. The best thing that you can do is actually listen to other people.
I know so much of the time in astrology, we talk about like how to talk to people and what other people are thinking or what are other people doing, but how many times have you really just stopped to listen to people? Like listen to people, the people you disagree with, the people you deeply want to impress, like listen to them.
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